Quotes About Prejudice

Homosexualidad.] La palabra me desagrada. No me gusta el hecho de que su formación sea irregular, y siempre he considerado que apesta a ciencia y a intelecto. Preferiría una palabra que oliera a vida corriente. (...) Sus raíces pertenecen a dos lenguas distintas: "Homo", que en griego significa "igual" y "sexual" que procesde de la palabra latiana para "sexo". Alguien la acuñó en el esiglo XIX y no logro imaginar en qué estaba pensando.

Dear teacher: My Wanda will not come to your school anymore. Jake also. Now we move away to big city. No more holler Polack. No more ask why funny name. Plenty of funny names in the big city. Yours truly, Jan Petronski.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Unless indoctrinated, a child is too logical to understand discrimination.

If Vittoria really is that, I thought, discouraged, then she is ugly, she has the ugliness of banality.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them

I leafed through the phrase book. If a Martian read it, the Martian would probably decide to avoid Hungary.

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

White and black: with these two categories the diversity of a thousand ethnicities is lost.

Skin color or the shape of one's nose cannot be the criteria upon which individuals are judged. Black is not beautiful; it's racist. Being African-American, conscious of your culture, fascinated by your history, this is beautiful—and really has nothing to do with putting a color chart next to your face.

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour.

His daughters had lived their early life in permanent disgrace for having, none of them, been born a boy.

Labels are for cans, not people.

We are the true friends of the negroes, always have been, and always will be, as long as they stay in the definite place we have provided for them.

Unscrupulous leaders can manipulate this mechanism in whole populations. Adolf Hitler, for example, repeatedly described the Jews as Untermenschen (subhumans) and through the skilful use of propaganda was able to induce enough Germans to project their shadow on to them as to make the Holocaust possible. The

There are those from religious backgrounds who resist and oppose LGBT equality; some very obsessively and publicly. They make bold accusations and negative statements about gay and lesbian people, their supposed "lifestyle" and relationships. But when a son, daughter, brother, sister or close friend comes out it is no longer an "issue" it becomes a person. They realise everything they'd said was painfully targeted at someone they love. Then......everything changes.

Note that an informed source need not fit our general stereotype of an "authority"—and a person who fits our stereotype of an authority may not even be an informed source.

One of those pretty boys we put up front to avoid being accused of only putting pretty girls up there.

El odio a la actitud científica caracteriza a ignorantes y resentidos.

A female is usually good as a daughter but very rarely good as a wife

A person who weighs the worth of the people by their beautiful face and dress is a Crass.

Bear in mind that neither wearing white clothes makes anyone a clean soul nor does putting on a black dress make anybody a bad heart.

Better to believe the bad words of a man than a woman speaking often about wise sayings or giving a sermon.